yeah. >> jesse: after 8:00. he is toast. >> greg: brain shrinks, but the other thing, wow! >> jesse: gross. i'm sorry. "jesse watters primetime" tonight, how do i follow that? i'm not going to follow that. i'm just going to promote the show. how ryan routh slipped through the cracks. 8:00 p.m. >> dana: marine veteran using experience from time spent in afghanistan to help the people who helped us. these afghan students learn how to ride bikes. started a fundraiser called all kids bikes. 9,000 to help them. good guy. >> jesse: only $9,000? one time donation. >> judge jeanine: time for me? why did the chicken cross the road? to arrest the traffic violaters, the san francisco cop wasn't wearing hiand the drivers wouldt them pass he arrested them. goes to show you that this cop

was workg around the clock -- club. >> jesse: the judge is still talking i'm not sure if you got the punch line, bret. >> bret: can i wait for the rest of the chicken story: good evening, welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. we're following two big stories this evening. israel takes out another high ranking hezbollah commander as its forces step up retaliation rocket attacks. we will take you there. on the campaign trail, vice president kamala harris renews her opposition to the senate filibuster over the issue of abortion. a position not that popular with several of her democratic colleagues. one democrat turned independent says he is not endorsing her over it. and another calls harris' push, quote: an absolutely terrible shortsighted idea. senior white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has that story live from the north lawn, good evening.

jacqui. >> jacqui: good evening, bret. a vice president holding a position she staked out before diverging from other progressive issues where she has flip flopped. but it could have far ranging consequences and for that reason, it's been opposed in the past by members of her own party. >> i have been vo clear. i think we should eliminate the filibuster for roe to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom. >> jacqui: swift reaction from two formerly democratic senators who blocked biden's request to do just that two summers ago. now independent senator kyrsten sinema to state the supremely obvious eliminating the filibuster to codify roe v. wade ban all abortion nationwide. what an absolutely terrible, shortsighted idea. and senator joe manchin with this. a.harry reid tried that with just a district circuits, circuit judges. and then the republicans came back and did it for the supreme court. >> it's not the first time harris has made this pitch. as a candidate in 2019 --

>> i am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to pass the green new deal. >> and as v.p. in 2022, quote: we have to codify roe v. wade into law. if the fbi gets in the way, the senate needs to make an exception to get this done. but harris may be wading into more controversy. >> border czar kamala harris has decided for political reasons that it's time for her to go to the border. >> with the possible trip to the border friday when she visits arizona. >> i don't think her going to the border makes any sense at all. frankly that plays right into donald trump who wants to make the border the number one issue. >> a cnn poll today has trump beating harris by 14 points on immigration. in arizona specifically, she is behind trump by 12 points on the issue among registered voters. 13 among likely voters. and it seems harris doesn't have a lot to say about her border policy out of restating support for the bipartisan. today the campaign not answering whether she would uphold her 2019 pledge to use executive powers to grant dreamers a pathway to citizenship and shield 6 million from deportation, which she railed

against in 2018. [chanting: up, up with education. down, down with deportation. >> jacqui: the bipartisan border bill that harris has made her entire immigration pitch included no provision for dreamers. it would also end the biden-harris. respond to specific questions today. they are, instead, touting endorsements from 400 economists and former officials ahead of an economic policy speech tomorrow in pennsylvania, bret. >> bret: more on this with the panel. jacqui, thank you. former president donald trump talking taxes today in the key battleground state of georgia. the republican nominee says his plan will provide relief to american workers and will be especially helpful to people in savanna where he was speaking. correspondent alexandria hoff is there tonight. >> hello savanna and hello georgia. we love georgia. >> in a port city battle ground state former president trump expanded on his vision future

manufacturing renaissance. >> from 21% to 15%, which makes us the most competitive tax anywhere in the planet. but, only for those who make their product in the u.s.a. >> in order to woo foreign companies to the u.s., trump's plan also includes cutting regulations, allowing production on federal land, expanding research and development tax credits, and additional first-year writeoffs if a citizen continues to produce outside the u.s. >> the word tariff properly used is a beautiful word. >> that's how the former president plans to pay for his promise of no tax on tips, overtime pay and social security. trump currently leads vice president harris by 4 points in the latest "new york times"-siena college poll of georgia voters. the harris campaign has been investing in georgia heavily. president biden won here in 2020 by less than 12,000 votes while trump won the state in 2016. this time democrats hope the abortion issue can help propel

the vice president to victory. the dnc unveiling these anti-trump billboards on the topic in savanna. >> today's event was the first time that trump campaigned in georgia since patching up a feud with governor brian kemp. he was not in attendance but trump did call him fantastic. that is not a word that senate minority leader mitch mcconnell would use to describe tariffs. is he not a fan. he is more of a free trade kind of republican. bret? >> bret: alex, thanks. >> bret: oversee seas now. 1r0689 intensified today against hezbollah terror targets in lebanon. took out a top commander along with what they are terming other key commanders for hezbollah. senior correspondent mike tobin is in tel aviv with the latest

another assassination neighborhood. ibrahim mohammed killed as he met with other hezbollah operatives. it's the second such assassination since israel escalated deadly pressure campaign against the militant shiite group. israel's prime minister again addressed the people of lebanon urging them to break free from hassan nasrallah and hezbollah. >> we will continue to hit hezbollah. i say to the people of lebanon our war is not with you. our war is with hezbollah. nasrallah is leading you to the brink of the abyss. >> with the chief of staff promising the intensity of the air campaign will only increase israeli fighter jets unchallenged over lebanon. they struck 1500 targets at will dropping over 2,000 munitions. the idf says they have hit weapons storage and rockets ready to fire. on the ground, lebanese civilians pay a terrible price. the health minister saying more than 550 feel have been killed since the air campaign

intensified. >> what we are seeing is that the majority of those who fell as a result of yesterday's aggression are civilians in their homes. >> through it all, hezbollah continues to fire rockets, missiles, and drones. they boast 400 rockets just today. while the iron dome does its job, some rockets get through. dash cam video caught a rocket hitting a northern israel highway. emergency crews respond. residents live with the threat. >> all day there are booms. all day there is a mess. >> while attention is turned north, war continues to claim lives in the gaza strip and airstrike in central gaza has left more than 20 palestinians dead. others injured. 101 people are still held hostage in gaza. bret? >> bret: mike tobin in tel aviv. mike, thank you. president biden meantime today at the u.n. says peace is still possible in the middle east and ukraine. the outgoing u.s. leader making one of his final major appearances on the world stage at the united nations general assembly. senior national correspondent

rich edson has highlights. >> i have hope. i know there is a way forward. >> in his final address as president to the united nations general assembly, president biden acknowledged he is leaving office with intensified fighting in the middle east, wars in ukraine and sudan, and an expansionist china in the pacific. though he says he has had successes we are building american alliances and withdrawing the u.s. from afghanistan. >> it was a hard decision but the right decision. it was a decision accompanied by tragedy. 13 brave americans lost their lives along with hundreds of afghans in a suicide bomb. i think those lost lives -- i think of them every day. >> republicans have criticized that withdrawal as chaotic in the beginning of what they say is a failed foreign policy. israel is fighting hamas in gaza and now hezbollah in lebanon. hamas still holds israeli hostages and seven americans. the pentagon announced this week that it's sending what it described as a small number of additional troops to the middle east. >> nothing but unrest for the

middle east, that would have only been precipitated after the massive failure of joe biden handing over afghanistan to the taliban. >> the president also told the u.n. general assembly that he has much more he wants to accomplish but knows it's time to leave. >> as much as i love the job, i love my country more. i decided after 50 years of public service, it's time tore new generation of leadership. >> though that decision followed a poor debate performance, sinking poll numbers, and democratic donors and lawmakers urging biden to step aside. >> the president is up there saying hey i left voluntarily, that's a little bit rich because the whole world knows what happened. >> biden leaves new york tomorrow, thursday is he scheduled to host ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy at the white house. zelenskyy will be presenting what he calls his victory plan to try to end the russian war against this country. bret? >> bret: rich edson outside the u.n. thanks. ♪

>> bret: breaking tonight, republicans on the house foreign affairs committee have advanced contempt of congress charges against secretary of state antony blinken. this following a contentious back and forth with the cabinet secretary over an appearance to testify in the chaotic u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. state department late today slamming that vote in the statement reading in part: today's action by the house committee on foreign affairs was a naked political exercise masquerading as oversight. china's central bank trying to pump up its economy that leads to gains here and wall street. the 84, the nasdaq rose 100. up next, we head to new mexico, for a live report on how human traffickers are exploiting the porous border. students return to class in georgia almost three weeks after a classmate killed two students and two teachers. 14-year-old colt gray is accused

of four counts of murder. his father is also facing related charges. fox 45 in baltimore as the state of maryland sues the owner and operator of the cargo ship that brought down the secret bridge. the move follows several other recent filings against the ship's singapore based owner and manager. six construction workers were killed. and this is a live look at san francisco from fox 2, our affiliate out there. one of the big stories there tonight nearby, the oakland a's begin the team's final home series at the coliseum tonight. team owner john fish wrote a goodbye and apology owner to fans. the team is ultimately headed for las vegas. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ ♪

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rick's, republican opponent comes from a political family very well-known throughout the state. the daughter of the late senator pete domenici background in financial services sector. cfo for bridgewater associates the country's largest hedge fund. despite her access to broad fundraising that network. senator heinrich has maintained a 3 to 1 ratio fundraising according to the fec. domeni c.i. uniquely because of her financial industry. heinrich seeking third term. won handily 2018. running on his and president biden's record key role in getting the largest infrastructure bill in history passed. a recent poll from out there in new mexico the albuquerque journal shows heinrich leading by 12 points with 9% saying they were undecided. ryan wirick leading among women

by 22 points. staying in new mexico now tonight we take you on exclusive ride along fox received upclose look at the dangerous and pervasive cartel activity there that sends drugs and criminals into the u.s. here is correspondent brook taylor. >> has eyes on those two by. >> two illegal migrants busted by border patrol agents after crossing the border over mount crease notorious for cartel control. >> illegal smuggling is multi-billion dollars per year criminal enterprise for trans criminal organization. >> agents recognize this migrant as someone who previously tried to cross the border illegally. they say he was smuggled by so-called coyote who made a shocking confession to us on camera. >> you were involved in the cartel? >> well, if you don't work for them, then you get in trouble with them anyways. when they need me, they come

looking for me. when they come, you have to go to work. >> this family from ecuador tells us they paid thousands of dollars to be smuggled. >> they will push a family group in one area and then once all the a agents respond to that ara they will send in another group, a bigger group. >> earlier we noticed that the mental border wall had been cut wide open. according to cpb data border patrol agents arrested 5,000 illegal immigrants criminal convictions this fiscal year. that's the highest for any single fiscal year since 2017. and a 265% spike from 2019. >> the violence often that is accompanied with these criminal activities, they are affiliated gangs within the united states are serious threat to americans. >> and just hours after our ride along, we got a call from border patrol that an illegal immigrant punched and bit one of the agents in the face while they

were trying to detain him. the fbi is now involved and he has been charged with assault. bret? >> bret: taylor, in new mexico. brooke, thank you. breaking tonight, we're just receiving word from the justice department that the man that is accused of trying to assassinate former president trump has just been -- the man accused of staking out the former president on his florida golf course has just been charged with attempting to assassinate him. just coming in a couple minutes ago. this comes after the former president said the state of florida should take over the investigation second assassination attempt against him. the former president says the fbi and the justice department mishandling the case. attorney general merrick garland disagreed with that in a statement earlier today. >>pt on the former president has a heinous act. i'm grateful that he is safe and

as i said immediately after the event, the justice department would spare no resource to ensure accountability in this matter. further, additional charges will soon be filed. >> bret: soon be filed and they were filed just moments ago here live. meantime, the senate today just passed a bill requiring the secret service to give major presidential candidates the same level of protection as presidents. that will now go to president biden's desk for his signature. retired nfl quarterback brett favre says he has parkison's disease. favre told a congressional committee today he lost his investment in a biotech company he believed was developing concussion treatments. favre has repaid about a million dollars in speaking fees funded by a welfare program in mississippi. he spoke at a hearing about that welfare misspending scandal. we have to implement guardrails and guidelines and be strict on how the money is supposed to be

used, most importantly so those families can get the money that they need in situations like myself or people in similar situations who are trying to do good. >> bret: favre says the challenges he endured during the fraud scandal were worse than anything he faced in football. >> bracing for tropical storm helene. if is expected to develop into a major hurricane. florida's governor has declared a state of emergency. governor desantis down there, tropical storm john struck mexico late last night. it grew into a category 3 hurricane then weakened back to tropical storm status earlier today. workers at the six main grain terminals located in the canadian port of vancouver are on strike tonight. officials say that could actually disrupt exports of canola and other crops. a separate strike could hit the u.s. east coast and gulf of mexico ports by october 1st. speaking of strikes. boeing is making what it calls a best and final offer to striking

union machinists. the union says it will not vote by boeing's friday night deadline. the proposed contract includes bigger raises and larger bonuses than the offer union members overwhelmingly rejected this month. but the machinist union says the new proposal does not go far enough. the justice department is suing visa, the antitrust action alleges visa uses its size and dominance to stifle competition in the debit card market, costing consumers and businesses billions of dollars. visa is calling that lawsuit tonight meritless. up next, our "common ground" segment with a bipartisan approach to protecting young people who use social media right here on set bringing them both on. first, beyond our borders tonight. russian prisoners appeal for the release of a thousand others still incarcerated. a united nations expert describes the significant worsening of the state of oppression in russia that is said to be endangering lives.

the freed prisoners were let go in august along with american journalist evan gershkovich. swedish authorities accuse iran of being responsible for thousands of text messages calling for revenge over the burns of islam's holy book last year. officials say the cyber attack was carried out by iran's paramilitary revolutionary guard. they say it sent 15,000 text messages in swedish about the string of public burns of the quran took place several months in the summer of 2023. a retired engineer in shanghai attempts to carve wooden miniature of china's most renowned buildings. the latest masterpiece is a miniature of the isaiah zoe bridgestone arch structure in the province. it took him three years to complete. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. more news from washington after this. ♪ we built this city ♪ we built this city on rock and

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♪ >> adolescence spending more than three hours a day on social media are facing double the risk of anxiety and depression symptoms. social media makes them feel worse about their body image. you put this together and recognize very quickly when # 5% of kids are on social media. these harms have the potential to really fuel the youth mental health crisis which has become the defining public health issue of our time. >> bret: that's the surgeon general there and tonight's "common ground" segment we talk about a bipartisan effort to protect children and teens using social media. joining us tonight pennsylvania democratic senator john fetterman and alabama republican senator katie britt. thanks for being here. i don't think we have had to adjust the chairs as much as between 6, 9 and 5. >> 5'4", tell me about

bipartisan effort senator bret warning level socially on social media. >> absolutely you heard the social media when children are on social media their rate of anxiety and depression increases. we know our kids aren't on social media for minutes or even a few hours. they are on social media on average five hours a day. knowing what we know, it's imperative that we give people a proper warning to say, you know, here are the challenges that are presented and then ultimately one thing we are very proud about our bill is it also gives people access to help so when people find themselves in a mental health crisis, our bill says there has to be a link that shows people how you get help in the face of that. and it really is a defining issue right now for our children. it's important that we do something. doing nothing is not an option. >> why is it important, senator fehrman? >> i think it's very important and actually more than anything it's common sense what a parent would want.

if you a person spending hours and hours every day one before your kids, you would want to know who that person is about and whatever. social media, children are spending hours and hours out of their day around. this and immersing themselves there. i think it's fairly common sense to have the appropriate kind of warnings on that. i have witnessed that with my own children, a negative kind of impact it's had on them even in myself on that, too. i think my colleague and i are talking between us we have five children. and it's a conversation that we would be having as a parent let alone as a senator. i think it's an entirely appropriate conversation that we should be having at a national level. >> bret: is there more that should be done? this is a warning label and takes kids to help if they need it. but there seems to be this discussion about social media and online presence a lot more on capitol hill. >> yeah. and i think that it's incumbent on us to figure out what are the proper guardrails to help protected the next generation. when you look at the numbers, suicide is the leading cause of death or second leading cause of death under the age of 44 years

old when you look at what is happening to our young people the rate of depression has more than doubled just between the years of 2011 and 2019. brett, when you look at what we just received with regards to outcome women, one in three high school young women said she actually considered taking her own life and then 9% of our high school population. so 9 out of 100 said they actually attempted death by suicide. so john and i are approaching this not just as senators but as parents and we believe that parents need all the information. >> yeah. when i was that age if you wanted to see really bad and negative things you go into the bathroom wall. now you can. >> on the back of the stall. >> see that it's piped right to your eyes and can you take this in. and it's dangerous. and it creates a situation and, you know, find anybody that it's like hey, i just spent an hour on social media and i feel better about the world and about myself better. i have never met one, but, if

there is one i would like to meet them. >> absolutely. this is a bipartisan issue. this isn't democrat or republican. this is an american issue. one that we got to get ahead of because it's already ahead of us. >> bret: i'm interested in how this relationship started. you guys are both freshman senators together. senator fetterman you were being treated at walter reed medical center for clinical depression after your stroke and here in town and you had a visitor from senator brit. >> yeah. yeah. >> bret: you established a relationship? >> yeah. our relationship kind of started it's like we had the whole spouse and it was like orientation and it's like this is a guy that's bigger than me. and we just kind of clicked at that point and developed a friendship. and then, yeah, she visited me at walter reed. and it -- so ever since then, we have just -- >> -- our spouses connected immediately. we got to know each other, obviously, and orientation. >> her husband had the kind of

career i wish i had playing football. mine didn't turn into much but he made it to the nfl. they are just wonderful people. >> we feel the same way. >> it never came about the politics or what team you are in. >> no. >> just about hey, working for what's better for america and that's kind of why we are here today. >> i think john and i broke the share a common goal represent the people you serve. getting to know him on a personal level and gisele. they are wonderful people. when you get to the senate they put you in the basement of the dirksen bui building with cinder block walls no, windows and no air conditioning. >> terrible office in the basement. >> terrible. we were down there together. also trying to navigate the senate and the ups and downs of serving the constituent that you love and so honored to serve, also being a parent. i mean, we have talked, you know, very intentionally about what it's like to miss, you know, your children's activities and parent in this environment when you are in the middle of

things. we have shared that. >> also, i think it's -- we can agree that our career has an impact on our children did. >> does. >> certainly myself and yourself. so we can relate on a lot of different kinds of levels throughout all of this. i think some people think we must hate each other's guts d.c., oh you are a republican and i'm a democrat or whatever. it's just not true. it couldn't be further from the truth. >> it's not. about his children when he said that about our children, you know, we stepped up to serve. our kids didn't ask for this. and so also feeling the effects of hour life in public on them has been real. and then you think about some of the challenges that we faces a adults that have been hard. and then, bret, you think about a child dealing with these things and sometimes alone and that's why we feel strongly so, passionately to get parents these tools to make strong decisions for their family and their children. >> bret: it's a big deal. really big deal. we wanted to spend time on this. there are more and more of these pairings come up talk about common ground working across the

aisle. do you have differences on issues. one of them may be this. the vice president today in wisconsin said i have been very clear i think we should eliminate the filibuster for row, roe v. wade to get us to the point whereby 51 votes would be what we need to put back in law protections for abortion. basically eliminate the filibuster legislation. senator manchin, senator sinema others have said that's a really bad idea because it could go back and forth and make the senate basically a super charged house. senator fetterman, you campaigned on this issue. how do you feel about the vice president's comment and manchin and sinema's pushback on it. >> i think, first, i wish roe never was fallen. i happen to agree with roe. i don't think i can ever recall a right that's been for 50 years that's been taken from american women. but now, regardless, we have to many do out with a way that brings that back so that's really the only path that i can see given what the supreme court

is with significant conservative majority right now. but, i know there aren't the votes now. but i think more than anything, it's more like hey, we stand on the side of abortion. and the other side has a different kind of opinion. and i think that's kind of where we are at. >> bret: senator brit? it would change the face of the senate and how it operates. >> absolutely. i think a super charged house is the best way to put it. the american people need stability and they need balance. the way that our forefathers southwest this up was to make sure that we had to find common ground. we had to find compromise in order for path forward for our country. that's what it takes 60 votes. typically speaking you don't have 60 democrats or 60 republicans. while it's happened it doesn't happen typically which means you have to take other points of view into consideration. you have to figure out and chart the best path forward for our country. we would have a yo-yo back and forth depending who was in charge of the senate and possibly, you know, the house, the senate, and the presidency

of laws that could dramatically whiplash our entire population. the way it is now is the way i feel like it needs to be. we need to figure out. we need to do hard things, get in a room and have tough conversations and figure out a path forward just our point of view but others in order to achieve a goal. >> bret: i know this is a big deal for the kids. are there other elements you think there is more common ground up there. >> absolutely. i think we have found common ground on a number of things whether it's social media bills that we have already worked on together. mental health bills we have worked on. senator butler and i worked on mortality making sure that we actually get answers to what is happening. alabama has one of the highest in the nation and we want to get answers. different things like that. >> i think it's also -- i think it's a meaningful representation of how things can get along and work together on things. again, people assume that it's so bitter and so divided and sometimes it is divided and those things, but this is an

example of that. and i would always, always enjoy and welcome the opportunity to do more bipartisan. >> i'm right there with john. >> bret: senators, thank you so much for the time. we'll be seeing new pennsylvania, i'm sure. thank you. can you see all of the common "n ground" segments on my podcast "common ground" and find under the bret baier podcast, spotify or whe wherever you download podcasts. see discussion on the fox news youtube page. the panel on the presidential race where we stand tonight. race where we stand tonight. ♪ with it, everybody. now i sleep with inspire. inspire? no mask? no hose? just sleep. learn more, and view important safety information at inspiresleep.com time to press rewind with... neutrogena rapid wrinkle repair. it has derm-proven retinol... ...expertly formulated... ...to target skin cell turnover... ...and fights not one—but 5 signs of aging.

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♪ >> for years americans have watched as our country was stripped of jobs and wealth. this horrific nightmare for american workers ends the day i take the oath of office. >> the gap between harris and trump on who do you believe will chart a better economic future for us has narrowed quite a bit. >> she is actually gaining steam by pushing the economic issue. i don't think her going to the border makes any sense at all. frankly, that plays right into donald trump. >> i think it's smart for her to get down to the border. frankly, the democrats are very vulnerable on this issue. >> bret: vice president heading to arizona and whether she goes to the border or not, we don't know. a couple of national polls, new ones out today, quinnipiac first

has the former president up 1 point in the quinnipiac poll. nationally. and then the cnn poll has vice president harris up one point. did i say this was tight? did i say it was close? yes. that tracks basically the real clear politics average is right in there. about 2 points. meantime, vice president harris doing an interview in wisconsin today. talking about the need to eliminate, as you heard with the senators there, the filibuster to codify roe v. wade into law. >> we should eliminate the fbi for roe to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom and for the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do. >> bret: besides senator fetterman, there are some democrats and independents who caucus with the democrats who have a problem with that let's bring in our panel. matthew con continue netty, fellow at the american

enterprise institute. jim garety of "the national review." leslie marshall, democratic strategist. okay, leslie, she has had before. she has had this talking point about eliminating the filibuster. obviously senators, the process know that when you do that, you open the door to swings of 51 votes changing major legislation, depending on who controls the majority. >> absolutely. i mean if you in the a majority, it's a good thing. >> bret: it's a great thing. >> we know that our politicians like to talk and talk for a long time and the filibuster allows them to do that. but, look, when it comes down to roe, i would say that i know numerous women, not just democrats but republicans that say i'm in favor of the filibuster and in charge. but for this i would say in order to codify roe, we got to get rid of it. when we look back historically matthew and i were just talking in the green room. actually wants it's not in the constitution. >> bret: do we need a camera back there to get the

conversation? do i need to play the soundbites from there. >> i don't know. and that's as far as we agree that it was not in the constitution. you know, but sometimes -- sometimes it's time for a change because, you know, it is a stall tactic. is it in the best interest of the people or just in the best interest of the party in power? >> bret: you know, jim, you start talking about the filibuster. everybody talks about it in washington. if you are a voter in middle america, are you into the process of the filibuster? does that affect how you think about things? >> not necessarily. but, the filibuster has been around for a long time. not the first time democrats and republicans have argued we should have the filibuster when we're in the minority. but once we have the majority we should get rid of it. i should point out the best case scenario for the democrats in the senate realistically is about 50/50. get rid of the filibuster with 50 votes. 50 votes opposed and tim walz breaking the tie you? want to get rid of the rights of the minority on a 51-50 vote? really? good luck with that. >> bret: that's the question.

just a little history, it was senator harry reid starts the breaking of the f filibuster for judicial nominees. republicans come in and do it for supreme court nominees. it still holds though that you need 60 votes to break a filibuster for legislation. just a little at home tracking. >> that's right. and i will think as jim points out, the likelihood is that it will probably remain that way at least for another two years depending on the outcome of this election. i think harris' problem is a little bit more general. look, there are three main issues in this election. the economy, the border and abortion. she is ahead on abortion. so, a comment like this may, you know, scare people who care about senate procedure, but i think for most voters it shows that she is on their side in terms of restoring abortion rights. but her big problem though is not everybody votes on abortion. more people vote on the economy and the border. that's her weakness. i think that contributes to why she is stalling in some of these polls we have seen in recent

days. >> here is the former president today on the expected visit to the border by vice president harris. >> she is -- you know she is going to the border very soon. she hasn't been there for four years. [laughter] >> the border czar? i'm not the border czar. oh, for years she was the border czar, right now she is saying because it's the worst border in history. going to the border, very interesting. >> bret: we don't know if she is going or not but he is talking about that. what about that issue if she does go there? it is, you know, three and a half years of dealing with all the millions of people who have come across that border. is this like hanging the lantern on the vulnerability? >> i always said that she should go to the border. she wasn't a border czar. i know that republicans like, you know that, phrase n. and coined that name for her. actually, she was tasked with exactly what joe biden was tasked with as vice president of the obama administration. which is the systemic issues in the country people are coming from. >> bret: to stop the flow. >> huh?

>> bret: to stop the flow which didn't happen. >> look at the numbers now. >> bret: now, three and a half. >> specifically since july, which my party does not tout enough i will say. hello, democrats. talk about oh the 30% reduction and it keeps getting lower and lower and compare it to the years before. you know it would be a double edge sword if she goes to the border based on perception and immigration democrats have an opportunity. >> every time people insist she was the migration czar, not the border czar it's fair to ask where all those migrants were going because they were all going to the border. she has to go to the border. one of those things if she doesn't go, now that this rumor has gone out that she might be going, if she doesn't go it is going to look like let's try to pretend the issue of the border. pretend the issue of immigration and asylum doesn't exist between now and election day. >> visit is cosmetic. show how she will be different from the current administration. she hasn't done that and that's why this election is tied. >> bret: okay.

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guitar slung across his back. cash's sister dine who is blind touched the statue for her brother for several moments now memorialized for several ages. >> ra reams and reams of poetry from him. >> sang about farmers floodwaters. and inmates in folsom prison blues. >> what leaders weren't speaking about forgotten men and women cash was. >> cash inspired generations of artists noting that before jay-z's black album and the band black sabbath there was only one man in black. >> snoop doggy dog but the it a different way. [laughter] he called johnny cash a real american gangsta. >> even lawmakers recite cash's lyrics. >> i can actually see the gravel in his gut and the spit in his eye. >> and while many have never heard of some of the people

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